//------------------------------// // Grace of Lament // Story: The Last worlds // by lucarioaaron //------------------------------// Several months later, it came the day of Twilight’s vision, their army was replaced by robots, many of the ponies, bulls and cows weren't match for them, and for worse, Aether was kidnapped, that made Twilight and Lucario turn into werewolf and werepony destroying every robot they find, then Twilight finds the hq of the brigade, they enter but get suddenly fend off and caged in the brigade lab, they get tortured, shunned, Lucario gets frozen in a symbiotic gel, used in experiments, the brigade used the victims for more experiments and to eat from their meat, other members were Ovan, the leader who has a large cannon in the left arm, Sakisaka, an engineer whom dislike ponies and dogs, Tabby a cat girl that loves animals, Shino, a medical witch that also loves animals, and Haseo whom survived Twilight’s shot and mainly tortures Twilight and Lucario, Ovan has shrunk Aether and used him as power source of his cannon, as he is son of Twilight and Lucario, he is one of the most powerful beings of all, he is draining him to destroy the rest of creatures he find. Lucario and Twilight become desperate to get out and save their son, Lucario gets remorseful about not being a good father but Twilight lifts his hope of getting out and get revenge, mostly he wants revenge on Ovan and Haseo, spending the time in the brigade and watching Aether in the cannon reminded Lucario when Aaron sealed him and he didn't wanted the same fate for Aether. As they were trapped in the cage, their chances to save Aether decreased every hour, the longer they stood in the cage the more Lucario was losing it and the most traumatized he feels about Aether trapped in Ovan's arm, they got disturbed by Haseo and frozen many times the both of them, Sakisaka was also making experiments on Lucario and Twilight, Shino and Tabby didn't liked what they were doing to those poor broken creatures, they were secretly helping them to survive their capture, they fed them and Shino made sure Aether was still alive in the cannon and heal their wounds, Haseo was still harassing them, Lucario promised him to not have pity when he get free would turn him in a chew toy, but Lucario still couldn't stand the desperation, Tabby and Shino still felt horrible for torturing them and she revealed that they are captives too, knowing that, Twilight discovers that they were threaten, forced and blackmailed to join their cause, Lucario had to beg them to bust them out and save their son, which they cannot since they can't disobey, Twilight insisted that Ovan is using them to destroy everything, then they are convinced and Shino and Tabby took care of Twilight, Aether and Lucario until the day they counterattack, and after helping them escape with Aether, he offers them to return them home or the stay in Equestria turned into ponies, they were now looking forward to being turned into ponies, therefor they waited for the day Ovan repairs his cannon and in that day they get revenge on Ovan and make sure he don't harm anyone else. Now the day Ovan repairs his cannon, Tabby brings Lucario and Twilight to be shot by Ovan, but secretly they all plan to free Aether and kill Ovan, then the moment comes and Shino breaks the cannon out of Ovan and they wait to free Aether, while Lucario manage unfinished business with Ovan, they rustle and crunch their claws and fists a lot, Shino gets Aether out of the cannon unharmed and unaware of his capture, they then come out to help Lucario, Lucario nearly defeats Ovan, Aether then starts glowing meaning that he evolves to an adult Lucario, his father gets joyed for that but Ovan points a gun at Twilight, he then jumps to his face to bite him but he gets shot as well, Ovan gets KO and Lucario almost dying from a punch in the gut, he then dropped his medallion and Spike's scale, Aether's eyes shine in Rainbow and cries for his father critically damaged, crying he evolves to a Lucario, Tabby, Shino and Twilight are happy that Aether evolved but worried of Lucario dying as he turns transparent, Aether uses his full power to revive Lucario, having a vision of Aaron and ash telling that he was a great father and mentor protecting everyone, Lucario wakes up, but so Ovan, the three confront him, after some punches, he was bleeding oil indicating Ovan is a robot, Aether takes the cannon to recover his drained power and kills Ovan, now destroyed, he can't harm anyone, but then they discover he did harmed their entire army, no survivors left and Lucario and Twilight sealed, but Aether could reason to his parents that if they stayed in the castle they could die as well and they couldn’t save him and they can save everypony else when they go back in time, Lucario crawls deeper in his shame feeling that he failed this followers by abandoning them and let them die, but the reasoning of Aether gets to him with Twilight’s help, even they won against the brigade the battle left them specially Lucario with big scars inside out in many senses, their gruesome victory felt like a defeat as they already lost too much and Lucario would not be the same anymore. They sadly continue to the railway looking for Lucario’s train, Lucario has lost most will to continue their quest, making Twilight upset and Aether disappointed of his father for giving up after everything they worked for, Lucario feels terrible for the death of his followers as he didn't proven to be a good leader that trained them hard to survive, but the training was in vain and also he isn't a good crafter as his weapons weren't enough to save them from the robots, Twilight was still angry but optimistic declaring that they just got back from where they started, when they arrive the train, Twilight went for some things from the castle before leaving, looking for her stuff, Twilight finds a talking robot dagger between the busted robots, the dagger tells her that he was created out of Lucario’s sword from his genes and intellect, he has collected the dna of everyone Lucario had interacted with and that he can replicate them in other bodies, meaning he collected the souls of all the deceased, those were great news, even a miracle, but Aether was still disappointed at Lucario for cowering at the brigade base, Twilight tried to explain why his father was like that. They left everypony to die and for him to be kidnapped and used as a mass destruction weapon, but Aether was still with the idea that Lucario isn't as brave as he thought, but when Lucario comes to talk to Aether, he explains that he shouldn't be upset because he didn't know about Lucario’s real past, he was young orphaned in Kanto, then adopted by Aaron and his mentor sealed him to save him but he felt betrayed, he almost died healing a massive tree mountain with his first human friend, when he met Twilight and Applejack, he was blamed for killing Applejack then sent to the moon unfairly, and he risked his neck to save everypony that shunned him and thought he was a monster, got many scars every time he saved somepony including him, Aether then felt horrible for being upset at the father that saved him and always loved him, he apologized and saw he was even braver than he thought, then the family get to the train to canterlot, also picking up Shino and Tabby. Lucario, Twilight and Aether make it to canterlot which is sealed by a hyper strong shield made by the princesses, no kind of magic can break it but Aether's hyperbeam can, he break a hole on the shield, the blast alert the cyborg demons. The brigade previously experimented on Sombra's demons and made them cyborgs to have them controlled, Aether went on his own and Twilight and Lucario went digging to the sewers, there they continue to where the blueprints are, while they continue, the brigade follow up, Lucario finds a now regretful Haseo whom now wants to apologize for helping Ovan to exterminate everyone and almost killing his family, he says that he had no idea Ovan wanted to exterminate all creatures, even foals, colts and fillies, Ovan lied that ponies stole their power key and he tricked him into capturing his army to find the thief, but now he wants to redeem himself by helping him build the magic mirror and go back to the past, but Lucario’s grudge was bigger and now wants to kill Haseo for everything he have done, Lucario beaten him up and was going to crush him telekinetically, but everyone else including Twilight told him to stop, he was going to be like Ovan if he do it, then Lucario stopped, but still hated him, the brigade actually didn't know Ovan wanted everypony dead and they are sorry for helping him, Lucario and Twilight let them stay in their group but Lucario would now nearly kill anyone who betray him. They continue in the sewers, then they connect Aether to the telepathy, they reunite in the center corner of the sewer then they get to Twilight’s old house, Twilight have stabbed most of the demons in the bionic eye to collect their dna to regenerate them in the past as ponies, arriving the house they hide until the cyborg demons get away, there they rest for a moment and set some things and shared some personal secrets, after they get away, the group directs to the canterlot palace, where they cross through many halls, rooms, the gala ball room, the throne room, Celestia, Luna and Cadence were in the center of the palace sealed in a giant gem still turned in statues, Lucario still had flashbacks of the day Luna arrested him, but Twilight still try to calm him, then Twilight writes a letter explaining the situation, afterwards they continue, and they pass meeting the room where used to be the portal, later they walk stealthy to Starswirl's old lab, there they open many old rusty vaults where they suppose are the blueprints and the spell, they find many artifacts, gizmos, inventions, prototypes, recipes, magical science theories and equations, right while they were looking for the papers and notes. Twilight now understands how Lucario feels with his shame layers, and now she can help Lucario to melt his layers, then she connects to Lucario’s core where she sees his valuable inside rotting like moss for the past misdeeds, other being also connects to Lucario who is the key solvent for Lucario’s shame, that being is the one and only Princess Luna, even if is been hundreds of years passed, Lucario still feel specially shunned and intimidated of Luna, Luna explains she was wrong in imprisoning Lucario unfairly she feels regretful as when she was evil, therefor she apologize and say that he is now a great hero, the comment made Lucario’s layers melt, then Lucario recovered many of the powers the shame has blocked which are hyperbeam, giga impact, dragon pulse, dark pulse, swords dance, metal claws, copycat, and shadow ball, also as compensation of sealing him in the moon unfairly, Luna gave Lucario a bracelet enchanted with her moon powers, and other one for Twilight with sun powers, afterwards they continue searching for the right spell, many tries without success, until Lucario finally finds it with many things. The group returns to Twilight’s house and spend the night there, except Lucario who would take a walk through the city avoiding the demons. He walks through the plazas, malls, parks, the chess garden, restaurants and entertainment places, he then stops by to the palace looking for advice from the princesses, which they didn't respond at first, but then Luna spawn a letter indicating they are proud of Lucario and now they named him a king, and the bracelet is his crown, later he returns with the group and Twilight got unexpectedly surprised of the news, yet joyed, Lucario just realized they left the shield hole open and the demons could escape to capture anyone they find, so he and Aether combined their power with his new bracelet to make many EMP shields on the remaining tribes to dissolve the circuits on the demons and keep intact their developed dna, the group would now leave Canterlot back to the Brigade HQ to build the portal, Haseo and Sakisaka didn't wanted to come, they were still ashamed of what they've done and they wanted to be killed by Lucario, but Lucario was just going to abandon them because he promised Applejack not to kill anyone but Dialga before she died, the group was continuing their march outside the city, Tabby and Shino stated to feel bad for the boys, Lucario remained indifferent to them, as Lucario had begged Shino and Tabby to free him from the cage, the girls begged him to let Haseo and Sakisaka back with them, telling him that Haseo has a wife and a son and Sakisaka has a girlfriend, Lucario reluctantly accepted considering they now have nothing to fight for and as he recovered his lost powers he could kill them easily if they betray him again, Haseo and Sakisaka were still very ashamed of what they did and Haseo would allow him to kill him if he make another mistake, Lucario warned him that he really will. The group headed back to the base, even they have now all they need to return to past Equestria, Lucario wasn't sure he wanted to leave yet, Twilight gave him some time to think things through, as well she give him a consolation prize for beating Ovan, on a cloud, after they are done, Lucario returns to the train factory to build a safekeeping spherical turret sentry to keep Twilight’s dagger while it regenerate everyone, he also meditate and have a short chat with Luna but is frustrated she can't talk very long, he plan to return to the base with the turret and materials to build the portal, before going, Lucario flies to every tribe to wave goodbye and collect every single bionic eye without leaving anyone, then he goes to the tree of harmony to gather the Rainbow flowers and then go to canterlot to leave the flowers to the princesses, the three princesses finally can contact together Lucario and their tell him that they bless him in his quest to kill Dialga and restore the multiverse, Celestia got proud of Lucario that she gave him a pearl ivory dagger that she was going to use when she get free, but Lucario would need it more.